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        Lailai Li

      • SEI Affiliated Researcher
      • Role(s): Affiliated with Headquarters
      • Expertise: Climate change adaptation, poverty reduction, environment management
      • lilailaicn@gmail.com
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      Dr. Lailai Li is an SEI Affiliated Researcher based in Beijing.

      Dr. Li worked at SEI from 2006-2012, first as Deputy Director and later on as SEI Asia Centre Director. Before joining SEI, she was director of the Programme of Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) and the Institute for Environment and Development in Beijing (IED), a Chinese NGO which she founded in 1994.

      Over the last decade, Dr. Li has been studying and generating solutions to poverty and environmental degradation in the field, through capacity building, information dissemination, program development and inducing institutional and policy changes. Since 2000, she has focused on research on Corporate Social Responsibility and promoting it amongst Chinese small and medium enterprises.

      She sits on the Board of Trustees of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), the Board of Directors of China Environment Protection Foundation, and is a council member of Earth Charter International. She holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Pittsburgh in the United States and was a research fellow at the Institute of Sociology and Anthropology at Peking University before starting IED.

      Publications by Lailai Li

      • Climate risks, regional integration and sustainability in the Mekong region
      • Understanding the Policy Contexts for Mainstreaming Climate Change in Bhutan and Nepal: A Synthesis
      • Scoping assessment of knowledge needs in climate change adaptation in China
      • GEO-5 Chapter 10: Asia and the Pacific
      • GEO-5 Chapter 15: Policy Options: Regional Summary
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      Projects and tools with Lailai Li

      • Agricultural transformations in the Greater Mekong Region
      • China: climate and energy politics
      • Regional Climate Change Adaptation Knowledge Platform for Asia
      • The economics of climate change in China
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